Sr Monica Thangbiakmawii
Siliguri, December 8 2024: After spending a year in Siliguri, 20 postulants of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians (MSMHC) will join two novitiates -Guwahati and Tinsukia in Assam along with 40 other postulants from Bangalore and Bongaigaon, Assam, on December 10, 2024.
“The Postulants will be entering the most important period of formation – the Novitiate. It marks a significant transition in their spiritual and personal growth in preparation to give themselves totally to Christ,” says Postulant directress Sr Lisnora.
“This period in Siliguri has been one of growth, learning, and preparation for postulants,” adds Sr Lisnora.
The training was to equip them with the foundational skills and spiritual grounding needed for the challenges and opportunities to be dedicated religious.
Siliguri postulants will join MSMHC novitiates in Guwahati and Tinsukia along with 40 postulants coming from other postulancy from Bangalore and Bongaigaon.
Siliguri postulant community Superior Sr Merlin says, “In the novitiate, they will engage more deeply with their faith, missionary vocation, and personal reflection, all of which are crucial elements in their path to becoming full members of their religious community.”
Some 30 new postulants are expected to join Auxilium Postulancy in Siliguri on December 13, 2024.
The MSMHC congregation founded on October 24, 1942, during the Second World War by Salesian Bishop Venerable Stephen Ferrando of Shillong has some 1,800 members spread out in 13 regions in India and abroad.
The MSMHC – 12th out of 33 groups of the Salesian Family — has its headquarters in Guwahati, Assam. It was founded 20 years after the first batch of Salesian missionaries arrived in Assam in 1922.